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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.9188S, -118.5918WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. Global time and date of event 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 15:19:31 / May 20, 2020 @ 3:19 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 07:19:31 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -118.5918 West, latitude 38.9188 North, depth = 0.5 km. Event id: nn00729465. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00729465. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.5 km (0 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fallon. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km N of Hawthorne, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5918° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.9188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km N of Hawthorne, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-20 15:19:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 15:26:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172.49 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nn00729465 Id of event.
Event Code 00729465 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00729465, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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